Semiotics and its Masters: Volume 2

Preface\nContents\nSection 1: Semiotic epistemologies\nWelcome to Semiosistan!\nBeyond teleonomy: Towards a biology of semiotic realism\nRisky heuristics\nThe semiotic inquirer and the practice of empirical inquiry\nTransdisciplinarity as a solution to the challenges of the contemporary world\nSection 2: Contemporary schools of theoretical semiotics\nNotes towards a semiotic theory of learning\nScarcity and meaning: Towards a semiotics of economic transaction\nApplied ecosemiotics: Ontological basis and conceptual models\nThe anthropological dimension of Greimas’ narrative semiotics\nWhat happens? The Zemic model in existential semiotics\nSection 3: Applications and practical discussions\nIntermedial narrative as communication media: Imagination, narrative, and selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective\nIcons of modernity in belle époque Bucharest\nGlimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing\nDevelopment of agency as semiotic empowerment: A Peircean analysis\nOn the corposphere: Body, eroticism and pornography\nNatural and cultural layers in the discursive becoming of language as a semiotic system\nIndex